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Configure skills

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Important

The functionality noted in this article is currently available for Human Resources customers on the Finance infrastructure.

You can track your worker's skills in Dynamics 365 Human Resources. You can also specify the skills that are required for a specific job.

Examples of skills you can track include:

  • Supervisory – Ability to supervise the work of others.
  • Leadership – Ability to lead employees and business domains.
  • Planning – Ability to look ahead, to form vision statements, and to see them through.
  • HTML – Ability to write HTML code.

If you haven't already set up skill types and rating models, you'll need to add some before creating skills.

The following people can enter skills for a worker:

  • Workers can enter skills for themselves in Employee self-service. These skills require manager approval.
  • Managers can enter skills for their workers. You can create a workflow that auto-approves these skills.

Create a skill type

Skill types are categories that individual skills fall under, such as Administration or Sales.

  1. In the Employee development workspace, select Links.

  2. Under Competency setup, select Skill types.

  3. Select New.

  4. Complete the following fields:

    • Skill type: Enter a name for the skill type.
    • Description: Enter a description for the skill type.

  5. Select Save.

Create a rating model

Rating models help evaluate a person's actual level of skill, the level they should work to achieve, or the level of skill required for a job. Each level in a rating model is assigned a factor.

  1. In the Employee development workspace, select Links.

  2. Under Competency setup, select Rating models.

  3. Select New.

  4. Complete the following fields:

    • Rating: Enter a name for the rating model, such as Skills.
    • Description: Enter a description for the rating model, such as Skill ratings.

  5. In the Levels section, select New. For each level you want to add, complete the following fields:

    • Level: Enter a name for the level.
    • Description: Enter a description for the level.
    • Factor: Enter a factor value from 0-9. Factors help normalize the scores of skills that use different rating models. Each level must have a unique factor. Levels with higher factor values carry more weight in a rating model.

    Continue adding levels as necessary. You can enter up to 10 levels for each rating model.

  6. Select Save.

Create a skill

Before you can assign a skill, or create a skill-mapping search or skill profile, you must enter information about the skills on the Skills page. For each skill, you can select a skill type and a rating model.

  1. In the Employee development workspace, select Links.

  2. Under Competency setup, select Skills.

  3. Select New.

  4. Complete the following fields:

    • Skill: Enter a name for the skill.
    • Description: Enter a description for the skill.
    • Rating: Select the rating model you want to use for this skill.
    • Skill type: Select from the list of skill types.

  5. Select Save.

See also

Enter skills
Map skills